I tried to enter the first command as you suggested but I could not get an IDE.
I tried the second command and a window came up with data but it closed as soon as it opened.
I could not capture the contents.
I am using "Run" from the accessories folder and it will not take the whole command, it leaves out the "processing.app.Base>output.txt" portion.
I tried using the command prompt and typing in the whole second command but nothing happened at all.
Where would I expect to find the output.txt file?
Is there a way of capturing the window that pops up?
You should be entering these commands from a command prompt.
The output.txt will be in the folder that you executed the command from.
The > output.txt at the end of the command will redirect all the output to this file rather than to the screen. This will make it easier to capture the output and post it here.
If you want to see if the command is executing anything, you can run the second command and leave off the > output.txt. You should see quite a bit of information show up in the command window.
Unfortunately, the output.txt file does not indicate the problem.
The output.txt shows that java just stops loading the application fairly early in the loading process, but does not show any errors.
As an example, my output.txt on my system is about 169K.
Did this ever work on your system? If so, what types of things have you done to the system before it stopped working?
Software installs? Driver installs? Windows updates? Etc...
The program did work on this system several months ago but all sorts of window updates and such have occurred since then.
Do I need to be administrator to run this program?
Do I need to load the latest java updates?
Is there another way of invoking the executable? Batch?
mike1948:
Do I need to be administrator to run this program?
No you don't need to be an admin to run it, but that would be an interesting experiment.
Do I need to load the latest java updates?
Normally this is not required, because the IDE contains it's own copy of the Java runtime. It may be worth a try to see if this changes anything.
Is there another way of invoking the executable? Batch?
You have already tried the only alternative way to invoke the IDE. The arduino.exe is just a wrapper to launch the Arduino IDE, which is a Java application. By executing that long command line I had you run for debug purposes, you were basically doing what the arduino.exe was doing.
So, try running as admin first, to see if this changes the behavior.
Then trying updating Java.
I.m sorry if this is such a noob question but i got my first arduino uno got the drivers to work and my laptop (running windows 7 ultimate) can see the arduino but i downloaded the arduino-1.0-windows ide and i cannot get it to start, all i get is a splash screen for a few seconds and thats it. i have no idea what to do next i dont even get any error messages i've even tried running as administrator but same thing any info or help pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated thank you all who take the time to respond,
Sincerly Richard
I seem to be having the same issue. I just installed Arduino on my Win7 PC into the C:/ directory. When I double click on the Arduio icon, the Blue intro screen shows up and then disappears, but does not open the program. I tried everything in this thread. I attached my log file. Any ideas?
The launch4j log indicates the IDE is trying to use the 64 bit version of Java.
The IDE is not 64 bit compatible and requires 32 bit Java.
The log also indicates it is not able to locate the version of Java that is bundled with the IDE.
Can you verify that the Java directory is located at the location in the log file:
Check launcher: C:\Arduino\arduino-1.5.2-windows\arduino-1.5.2\java\bin\javaw.exe (n/a)